This detailed, thoroughly researched and fully referenced biography charts the career of the legendary revolutionary leader, from Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim. In the words of Denis McCullough he was 'the common multiple of all the organisations' who engineered the 1916 Easter Rising that led ultimately to Irish independence. To Michael Collins he was the figure 'tramping through Ireland and preaching the Fenian gospel of a freedom which must be fought for, enrolled recruits and by his pure patriotism and lovable selfless character inspired all with whom he came in contact...Ireland will not see another Seán MacDiarmada.'